17 episodes
Embrace Your In-Between By Wider Visions Megan Shekleton
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Welcome to Embrace Your In-Between by Wider Visions - a podcast to provide you guidance for your growth and expansion into the wider vision of your life. Hosted by Megan Shekleton - a Certified Transformational Life Coach, this podcast hopes to spark inner discovery, inner reflection, and inner expansion into who you want to be and the life you want to live. We engage in real conversations and share actionable guidance to help you embrace your in-between - the space between where you are today and where you want to be, because after all, in the in-between is where all the growth happens.
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Aligning Your Values with Your Actions with Amelia Hruby
On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are in conversation with Amelia Hruby, the founder of Softer Sounds and the host of the podcast, Off the Grid. Amelia is an expander for Megan for building a business off of social media, and in their conversation, they explore living your life based off your values and frameworks for value aligned action for life and business.
In this episode, we connect on:
1:15 | Meg shares her serendipitous story of how she became connected to Amelia + how it was a little universe wink
7:30 | Meg shares Taylor Elyse Morrison of Inner Workout description of Amelia
9:45 | Amelia shares a bit about herself
12:00 | Amelia on resisting overworking and prioritizing pleasure
18:45 | Amelia’s journey off of social media
21:15 | Using human design to guide your career choices
24:00 | Action brings clarity
28:30 | On going against the grain
31:15 | The process to identify your values
32:00 | Alignment Course with Maggie Batista
33:30 | Framework for living your life in accordance with your values
46:15 | Self trust + entrepreneurship
50:15 | Jennifer Armbrust + Proposals for a Feminine Economy
50:45 | Embodying Abundance Course
53:45 | Orienting her life around fun
More on Our Guest - Amelia Hruby:
Where to Find Her: Softer Sounds
Amelia Hruby is a writer, educator and podcaster with a PhD in philosophy. She is the founder & executive producer of Softer Sounds, a feminist podcast studio that supports women & nonbinary small business owners. And she’s the host of Off the Grid, a podcast about leaving social media without losing all your clients.
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Fear of Failure + How to Reframe It
On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, Megan explores the fear of failure, the different ways it can motivate our behaviors, and helpful reframes if this is something you are struggling with.
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Soft Ambition
On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, Megan explores the topic of soft ambition.
Resources:
Marie Claire Article: "On Soft Ambition"
Pulling the Thread Podcast w/ Bruce Feiler + Elise Loehnen
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How to Prioritize Fun + Why It Matters
On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, Megan shares the approachable and intentional ways she has been making more space for fun, play and creativity in her life. If you want to orient your life towards more JOY, listen to this episode.
In this episode, we connect on:
2:00 | Megan shares her story from burnout to prioritizing enjoying the journey
6:00 | Megan shares her favorite ways to play and have fun
7:00 | Her recommendations for the best books to read to inspire play + creativity
7:45 | How the Industrial Revolution changed the way we view time
8:30 | Time + value equation
11: 30 | How distractions make us feel like we have a time deficient
15:15 | A reframe if you feel guilty for “not being productive”
18:30 | Price’s 3 ingredients of “True Fun”
20:15 | Fun audit
24:30 | Novelty = fun
26:00 | The evolutionary reason behind why we play
26:15 | Summer bucket list trend
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Infusing Play + Creativity in our Everyday Lives with Emily Eisenhart
On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are exploring the topic of how to infuse more play, creativity, and fun into our everyday lives with Emily Eisenhart - an Austin based multidisciplinary artist, designer and muralist.
In this episode, we connect on:
15:00 | On her definition of creativity + play
16:00 | “Make believe is just thinking”
19:15 | On shifting out of the self belief that “I am not creative”
21:30 | Exploring why play + creativity are important
27:15 | On finding flow
28:45 | Exploring creative rhythms and the concept of “fallow”
38:15 | Stretching time
51:30 | Color theory
58:45 | Key elements of play + creativity
More on Our Guest - Emily Eisenhart:
Where to Find Her: @emily.eisenhart and www.emilyeisenhart.com
Emily Eisenhart is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. She is constantly exploring, and her work is heavily inspired by the textures, patterns, colors, and stories around her. While painting is her forte, she has illustrated on all scales, from small portraits to expansive 7-story murals, and has designed everything from bespoke hotel wallpaper to custom bicycle wraps, boutique wine labels to vibrant residential commissions. She has collaborated with partners of all kinds, from brands like Warby Parker, YETI, Whole Foods, and Lululemon, to real estate developers, architects, interior designers, and individuals looking for contemporary artwork for their offices, studios, and private residences. Prior to opening her own studio, she cut her teeth at the world class design firm IDEO where she worked with clients such as Nike, Microsoft, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Ava Johanna on the Power of the Breakdown
On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are in conversation with Ava Johanna - the CEO and Founder of The Academy of Breath - a breathwork and meditation certification that has trained hundreds on these life changing practices.
As both Scorpios, we go deep in this episode. Ava shares her story of allowing her life to come undone in 2021- the dissolving of her marriage, the ending of longtime friendships, and starting over after moving to a new city. We chat about the power of self trust and radical self honesty, especially in moments of massive transition. We also chat about how to receive and money mindset shifts she now embodies after experiencing homelessness as a teenager. She's so powerful, and I can't wait for you to hear her story.
The next round of the Academy of Breath opens in late June. Check out details here!
In this episode, we connect on:
13:15 | The duality of the fear of being seen and a deep desire to be seen at the same time
14:00 | Sharing her story of allowing her life to come undone in 2021- dissolving her marriage, moving to a new city and, the changing of longtime friendships
18:00 | Finding herself in the moment of choosing a life that’s “good enough” or one that truly lights her up
22:00 | Practices that helped her step into the “unknown”
26:00 | Moments of massive transition can lead to us outsourcing our power or looking for validation on our decisions
29:15 | How to build self trust
32:15 | On mindful consumption
33:45 | The difference between fear and our intuition
40:15 | Questioning if we need moments of contraction in order to expand
41:00 | The power of being radically honest with ourselves
44:30 | How we can use activating breathwork practices to better manage stress in our lives
48:30 | Her internal and external shifts that she took to create financial success after experiencing homelessness and financial trauma
56:45 | Practices that open you up to receiving
01:01 | How to move from the comparison trap
More on Our Guest - Ava Johanna:
Where to Find Her: @avajohanna and The Academy of Breath
What’s Next: Ava’s *free* Iconic Coach training starts on 6/14. The Academy of Breath opens June 29th! Check out details here.
Ava Johanna is the founder of the international breathwork teacher training, The Academy of Breath™, 7-figure business coach, and host of the top wellness podcast: The Alchemized Life.
Ava’s Academy of Breath™ has certified hundreds of healers & visionaries from around the world in breathwork & meditation so they can create a soul aligned & profitable business with service at the forefront of their purpose. Ava has helped her students leverage meditation and breathwork as a tool for deeper self trust, intuition and creativity to help grow their careers. Today Ava is sought after for her expertise in teaching healers & visionaries how to take ancient practices into the modern world to enhance their spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical states.
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Patience, Grace and Intention
Megan is a light & guide when it comes to putting things into perspective.
She reminds us that each grain of sand makes up the beauty of the Sahara. That the immensity of our oceans is made up only by a multitude of drops. To acknowledge this, is to see that we are the same. We deserve to give ourselves the same grace and respect. Each action we take is leading to a higher place. The In-Between is where we create the space to set our intentions and align ourselves to our highest visions.